The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.

Exuberance is better than taste.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

The future is the worst thing about the present.